According to Yahoo!Buzz and the study they did to find out which U.S. presidents’ quotes were most-searched, here are your top 10, and some words from each….
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
9. Calvin Coolidge
I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.
8. John Adams
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
7. John F. Kennedy
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.”
6. George Bush
You know what’s interesting about Washington? It’s the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
5. George Washington
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
4. Ronald Reagan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
3. Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
2. Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
1. Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~73v
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Every quote is spot-on!
You are brilliant… or at least you are today to me (^.^)
most-searched for because of this:::
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
liked these as well…
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
http://blog.badtux.net/
or something like that.